Guerino Mazzola
Guerino Mazzola is a professor of Music and a member of the Program in Collaborative Arts at the University of Minnesota. He earned his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Zurich University, where he also qualified as a professor in algebraic geometry and in computational science. Mazzola has profiled the European school of mathematical music theory since 1980 and has written six books on the subject, among them The Topos of Music (2005), proposed by the American Mathematical Society as the mathematics book of the year, and La vérité du beau dans la musique (2007). Mazzola’s approach to music includes sophisticated mathematics of topos theory, but also classical tools from group theory to homotopy theory. His latest book is Flow, Gesture, and Spaces in Free Jazz - Towards a Theory of Collaboration (2009).
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